Ready or not…
See you Wednesday. I hope you will comment here about what you saw and heard when we meet.
Archive for June, 2008
Wildfires and Supermarket Sweep in San Antonio
This is a cross post from my blog as TeachersFirst editor.
Poster Session WILL have a “poster”!
It’s at the printer! This is the visual you will see on the huge bulletin board behind the table for our presentation. I have the handouts almost ready, so this blog should have everything our visitors need as supplements to actually talking to Boni Hamilton and me. I can’t wait.
Pulling it together
There are a little over three weeks to go, and I am in the messy stages of preparing this presentation. I have been collecting emails, documents, and web 2.0 samples and site reviews for over a year. The presentation proposal went in eight months ago. Now it is time to get it all together.
The only thing that saves me is the fact that electronic “stuff” does not trip me or get chewed by my dog as I spread it around looking for the best ways to arrange it for a poster session. I wish I had my “invention” for the four by eight foot bulletin board I will be using: an IP-addressable “frame” that can display anything I send to it from any computer that “knows” the IP address. I could “send” the entire mess (organized, of course) without dealing with airline surcharges, printers in distant cities, or deadlines. I could change it any time. Sure would be nice.
But reality rules for this presentation just as it does for teachers in the classroom every day. I need to deal with the possible barriers, the possibility that someone will “mess up” my stuff, the chance that technology won’t work, and the nightmare scenarios of troublesome and distracting questions (Not from a NECC attendee, for sure!), tight scheduling, etc. What an appropriate way for me to share the gap between web 2.0 fantasy scenario and classroom reality. I hope you will join me when I get there and hang out here afterwords long enough to tell me what you REALLY thought of it.
